Abb Research Ltd.

Knut Haugen

Bjorn Oyvind Bringedal

The present invention relates to an arrangement in a separator, especially a gravity separator ( ), to which separator is supplied with well fluid containing sand, and to avoid sand settling on walls of pipes or separators; it is according to the invention, suggested that the separator ( ) comprises a conical part ( ), which passes into a sloping or mainly vertical arranged bottom pipe ( ), for, so to speak, continuous bottom outlet of sand ( ), which is suspended in a fluid, mainly sand carrying water.

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Oslo, Norway

Knut Haugen